Beauty Fragrance
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H
owever you slice it, watermelon is nearly
synonymous with warm-weather picnics and
afternoons on the beach. But the electric-pink
après-barbecue treat also happens to be packed
with vitamins and lycopene—a potent antioxidant that helps
counteract UV damage—which has made it a buzzy new
addition to everything from the sweet jerky in Sakara Life’s
cultish organic-meal-delivery service to a Beyoncé-backed
cold-pressed-juice brand, and now skin care. “It’s Korea’s
favorite fruit,” says Sarah Lee, cofounder of Glow Recipe,
the online destination for natural K-beauty products. Lee’s
mother used to grate refrigerated watermelon rind to
soothe sunburns and acne irritation, which helped inspire
the Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask in the brand’s debut
product range. The cooling, clear gel treatment—with
visible chunks of locally sourced Korean watermelon rind—
delivers a burst of plumping hydration and can be rinsed off
for a quick dose of moisture, or worn overnight following a
long day spent in the summer sun.— ZOE RUFFNER
JUICY FRUIT
ULTRA-HYDRATING AND LOADED WITH ANTIOXIDANTS,
WATERMELON IS A SUMMER BEAUTY CURE-ALL. THE COMFORT
OF WATERMELON, BY ANA MERCEDES HOYOS, 1993.
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garb—with helmet—for much of its running
novel. But perhaps it’s time to reassess how
time. Plus, the streamlined style has been
we apply this term in a beauty context. “It’s
essential to conveying a certain “strength”
not girlie or frilly in any way,” insists Stew-
on-camera, she reveals—the kind needed
art, who will star as the face of the perfume,
by an unlikely heroine who must over-
out in September. Instead, the golden bev-
come a cataclysmic chain of events. But
eled bottle conjures what she describes as
Stewart wants to make one thing clear: It
Chanel’s “basic essence”—what the French
is by no means intended to read as mas-
call insoumission, a word that falls some-
culine. “Immediately after I did it, I felt
where between rebelliousness and disobe-
undeniably feminine,” she explains. The
dience in English, although Stewart’s own
definition, having an “unshakable”quality,
decolletage-exposing look has also made her
more accurately describes it.
feel longer and leaner, subsequently opening
FLOWER POWER
THE NEW SCENT FEATURES A GOLDEN
In her role as a Chanel ambassador,
her up to wearing brighter colors, new neck-
BEVELED BOTTLE AND A STANDOUT
Stewart
has been indoctrinated into the
lines, and a surprising fragrance that refuses
TUBEROSE NOTE DISTILLED
FROM CHANEL’S PRIVATE GARDENS
lore surrounding the French house’s found-
to be pigeonholed as just another floral.
IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE.
“It smells really good—particularly on
er: She has toured Mademoiselle’s Paris
me,” Stewart says with a laugh while dis-
apartment, and she has been brought up
to speed on the trysts and turns that helped take her from an
cussing Gabrielle, Chanel’s first blockbuster scent franchise
orphaned cabaret singer to a milliner, couturier, perfumer,
in fifteen years. As someone whose own olfactory history has
brand builder, and an all-around expectations-defier whose
precarious roots—“To be quite honest, I love Old Spice”—the
legend continues to resonate with women globally 107 years
Twilight star turned Cannes darling wasn’t necessarily the
after she opened her first store on the Rue Cambon. But
woman perfumer Olivier Polge had in mind when he started
the way Stewart connects to Chanel’s nonconformity feels
work on the jasmine, orange-flower, and ylang-ylang blend
refreshingly unsponsored. “It’s hard to speak about yourself
that includes an exclusive strain of creamy tuberose distilled
in that way, but I like to imagine that I act on my own accord,
from Chanel’s private gardens in Grasse. But Gabrielle, the
and there’s nothing really exterior that would derail the deep-
fragrance, much like its namesake, Gabrielle Chanel—before
she was Coco—is hard to pin down.
est things that keep me going,” she acknowledges of her own
In our increasingly gender-agnostic society, where fragranc-
driving force. “I feel kind of worthy of it at this point in my
life,” Stewart says of Gabrielle’s unapologetic scent profile.
es are skewing increasingly unisex, billing something as delib-
“Which is a great feeling.”— CELIA ELLENBERG
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erately feminine, as Polge has with his latest creation, is almost